Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-02
Truth INDICATED.
BUBBLE OF PALSEHOODS PRICKED,
Captain Dunlaps Political Record While 3
B.& 0. Official.
FACTS ABOUT THE MANAGEMENT.
Mr.. Clements Malicious AsSailant Riddlsd
With Hot Shot
GRAFTON, W. Va, |
September %, 1887. J

Within the past week there has appeared
in the columns of the htelIigeRcer Of your
city, communication from this place signed
"X. Y. H." which created a passing SEN
sation because among other things it con-
tanned a villainous diatribe against Mr..
William NJ. Clements, the Manager OF the
different lines of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, east of the Ohio river; the in
centive to the attack being The removal OF
Division Superintendent Dunlap, and the
appointment OF Captain l. 7. Legge, to
the vacancy thus created. The ayidity
and eagerness with which the leading
Republicans Of standing and respectability
in this community, repudiated all
KNOWLEDGE OF, AND CONNECTION WITH,
this effusion of bile and bad grammar, led
many to believe that it had originated in
the fertile brain OF your versatile neighbor
and had been manufactured to order in
the IntsHigeRcer Office.
No resident here could be found hardy
enough to stand sponsor for the letter, and
father the charges which it made; hence
it was hawked about our streets as RuiiuS
MiWS-the spawn OF some stray fish, which
deserted the rocky bed after casting the
unsOund egg.
The putative father of this production
was at the time supposed to be former
local "boss" OF our ward politics who
weekly emergej from the mountain fast
neSses OF an adjoining county, and through
the medium of patent outside" III
which he still holds an interest, makes
this point the base OF his Cedkiy attacks
upon gentlemen of all classes, parties and
sects, whose mental apparatus arc not run
through his contracted 'schute." Indeed
in the last two issues of his paper he sub
stautially revels in the glory of tie pro-
duction, aud, like the doughty knight in
Don OuiXOte, thirstS for the honor Of first
place among its defenders. When this
gentleman andlyour contemporary becamt
running mates is not known, but the
former doubtless knows, and certainly APP
preCiates, the efficiency OF well regulated
railroad system as an effective political
agency when such bitter, uncompromising
Republicans as superintendent Dunlap
are at the helm. This gentleman
COULD TELL.
who it was called upon an active, energetic
Democratic worker, on the eve OF one OF
Our elections, and openly served notice on
L L. hts ,,g,,ol tntnrasi
agains. certain Republican candidate
Dunlap would discharge him. lie might
also tell why 1t was that men, who had
from early manhood been adherents of the
Democratic faith, found it convenient t.
change their politics when Dunlap shot uI
like rocket under the Dunham regime
and who, within short time thereafter
we're advanced to places of better employ
mcnt over colder, if not better soldiers
in the service; men ut whose
knees these new NapoleOns of rail
road science had passed theil
probationary tutelage; and why many OF
these tledglings, wrapped in the swaddling
clothes of their party apostacy, were more
competent TO run passenger engines and
don the epaulets OF passenger conductors
when their politics were in harmony with
those of the eX-Superintendent than they
had been preceding their marvellous con
version. He
COULD PROBABLY TELL WHO
notified certain train men i'll the fall OF
1886 that ''if they persisted in carrying
the pictures of Cleveland and Judge Bran
non on their engines, it would be good
cause for removal" and at the same time
permitted certain other engineers to place
the cartoons of Blaine and GOtf In the
headlights of their locomotives.
He could certainly tell many other
things of current political interest in this
connection, and among them the num-
ber of Democrats whose principle:
were above the price of the
place, they held, who were all but frozen
out" of the service because their politics
were not in sympathy with that OF theil
boss; also the number Of Republican
supervisors, who were transferred during
the last campaign to places where "theJ
could do the most good for Con and Sena'
tors Maxwell and Furbee;" what instruc
tions the bosses at the Parkersburg end o.
the line had in reference to the candidaturt
of John A. Hutchinson, the Republican
nominee; and why railroad passes were
taken from certain telegraph employees IL
the fall of 1886 and concentrated in The
hands of Republican strikers-in the same
line of employment We think the gentle
man referred to has full information upor
these subjects. and if he has not let hin
ask Dunlap.
These things
WOULD he INTERESTING READING
TO the hundreds who know tn,
facts, and the silly charge made
against Mr.. Clements comes will
i'll grace from such source. Tht
great regret which is being expressed il
certain Republican circles over the decapi
tation of Mr.. Dunlap, has attracted thu
attention of many OF our conservative citi
zens, and the conclusion reached on al
sides, emphasize the charge which ha
been made during the past two years, tha
the ex Superintendent was more anxious
for the success of his party, than Of th'
road he served; and that the bosses baset
the hopes which they entertained for thei
success(?) in the next years campaign
upon the fact that they could depend upol
their partisan railroad friend to run a wei
creased political machine upon the none!
at the time and expense OF the great cOrpo
ration, which they now denOunce in un
measured terms, because their scheme
have been tbwarted and their plans fallel
withered and still-bOrn.
This is
NOT THE FIRST ATTEMPT
which the directing genius of the G. o. p
has made towards diverting the bushes
of this railroad from its legitimate chan
mel into the groove of partisan politics. 1t
instincts are as true now as ten years az
to the only remaining tenet of Its politlca
faith-the aggregation Of corporate wealth
aud the lavisbly corrupt use of its in
iuence for the accomplishment Of sordid
selfish, political ends. How well has
accomplished these ends in more inviting
fields can he seen by single glance a
the States Of the Northwest, where non
are eligible to places of honor and profit
unless they come with the endorsement o
the Republican bosses, who control 1t
great corporations, and
rupn,-rt L TUE pnpTrI AP WILL